Reviewers: Note that CTxMemPool now requires a non-defaulted
CTxMemPool::Options for its constructor. Meaning that there's no need to
worry about a stray CTxMemPool constructor somewhere defaulting to
something incorrect. All instances of CTxMemPool construction are
addressed here in this commit.
We set options for CTxMemPool and construct it in many different ways. A
good example can be seen in how we determine CTxMemPool's check_ratio in
AppInitMain(...).
1. We first set the default based on chainparams's
DefaultConsistencyChecks()
2. Then, we apply the ArgsManager option on top of that default
3. Finally, we clamp the result of that between 0 and 1 Million
With this patch, most CTxMemPool construction are along the lines of:
MemPoolOptions mempool_opts{...default overrides...};
ApplyArgsManOptions(argsman, mempool_opts);
...hard overrides...
CTxMemPool pool{mempool_opts};
This "compositional" style of building options means that we can omit
unnecessary/irrelevant steps wherever we want but also maintain full
customizability.
For example:
- For users of libbitcoinkernel, where we eventually want to remove
ArgsManager, they simply won't call (or even know about)
ApplyArgsManOptions.
- See src/init.cpp to see how the check_ratio CTxMemPool option works
after this change.
A MemPoolOptionsForTest helper was also added and used by tests/fuzz
tests where a local CTxMemPool needed to be created.
The change in src/test/fuzz/tx_pool.cpp seemingly changes behaviour by
applying ArgsManager options on top of the CTxMemPool::Options defaults.
However, in future commits where we introduce flags like -maxmempool,
the call to ApplyArgsManOptions is actually what preserves the existing
behaviour. Previously, although it wasn't obvious, our CTxMemPool would
consult gArgs for flags like -maxmempool when it needed it, so it
already relied on ArgsManager information. This patchset just laid bare
the obfuscatory perils of globals.
[META] As this patchset progresses, we will move more and more
CTxMemPool-relevant options into MemPoolOptions and add their
ArgsMan-related logic to ApplyArgsManOptions.
0f1a259657 miner: Make mempool optional for BlockAssembler (Carl Dong)
cc5739b27d miner: Make UpdatePackagesForAdded static (Carl Dong)
f024578b3a miner: Absorb SkipMapTxEntry into addPackageTxs (Carl Dong)
Pull request description:
This is part of the libbitcoinkernel project: #24303, https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/projects/18
This is **_NOT_** dependent on, but is a "companion-PR" to #25215.
### Abstract
This PR removes the need to construct `BlockAssembler` with temporary, empty mempools in cases where we don't want to source transactions from the mempool (e.g. in `TestChain100Setup::CreateBlock` and `generateblock`). After this PR, `BlockAssembler` will accept a `CTxMemPool` pointer and handle the `nullptr` case instead of requiring a `CTxMemPool` reference.
An overview of the changes is best seen in the changes in the header file:
```diff
diff --git a/src/node/miner.h b/src/node/miner.h
index 7cf8e3fb9e..7e9f503602 100644
--- a/src/node/miner.h
+++ b/src/node/miner.h
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ private:
int64_t m_lock_time_cutoff;
const CChainParams& chainparams;
- const CTxMemPool& m_mempool;
+ const CTxMemPool* m_mempool;
CChainState& m_chainstate;
public:
@@ -157,8 +157,8 @@ public:
CFeeRate blockMinFeeRate;
};
- explicit BlockAssembler(CChainState& chainstate, const CTxMemPool& mempool);
- explicit BlockAssembler(CChainState& chainstate, const CTxMemPool& mempool, const Options& options);
+ explicit BlockAssembler(CChainState& chainstate, const CTxMemPool* mempool);
+ explicit BlockAssembler(CChainState& chainstate, const CTxMemPool* mempool, const Options& options);
/** Construct a new block template with coinbase to scriptPubKeyIn */
std::unique_ptr<CBlockTemplate> CreateNewBlock(const CScript& scriptPubKeyIn);
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ private:
/** Add transactions based on feerate including unconfirmed ancestors
* Increments nPackagesSelected / nDescendantsUpdated with corresponding
* statistics from the package selection (for logging statistics). */
- void addPackageTxs(int& nPackagesSelected, int& nDescendantsUpdated) EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED(m_mempool.cs);
+ void addPackageTxs(const CTxMemPool& mempool, int& nPackagesSelected, int& nDescendantsUpdated) EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED(mempool.cs);
// helper functions for addPackageTxs()
/** Remove confirmed (inBlock) entries from given set */
@@ -189,15 +189,8 @@ private:
* These checks should always succeed, and they're here
* only as an extra check in case of suboptimal node configuration */
bool TestPackageTransactions(const CTxMemPool::setEntries& package) const;
- /** Return true if given transaction from mapTx has already been evaluated,
- * or if the transaction's cached data in mapTx is incorrect. */
- bool SkipMapTxEntry(CTxMemPool::txiter it, indexed_modified_transaction_set& mapModifiedTx, CTxMemPool::setEntries& failedTx) EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED(m_mempool.cs);
/** Sort the package in an order that is valid to appear in a block */
void SortForBlock(const CTxMemPool::setEntries& package, std::vector<CTxMemPool::txiter>& sortedEntries);
- /** Add descendants of given transactions to mapModifiedTx with ancestor
- * state updated assuming given transactions are inBlock. Returns number
- * of updated descendants. */
- int UpdatePackagesForAdded(const CTxMemPool::setEntries& alreadyAdded, indexed_modified_transaction_set& mapModifiedTx) EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED(m_mempool.cs);
};
int64_t UpdateTime(CBlockHeader* pblock, const Consensus::Params& consensusParams, const CBlockIndex* pindexPrev);
```
### Alternatives
Aside from approach in this current PR, we can also take the approach of moving the `CTxMemPool*` argument from the `BlockAssembler` constructor to `BlockAssembler::CreateNewBlock`, since that's where it's needed anyway. I did not push this approach because it requires quite a lot of call sites to be changed. However, I do have it coded up and can do that if people express a strong preference. This would look something like:
```
BlockAssembler::BlockAssembler(CChainState& chainstate, const Options& options);
BlockAssembler::CreateNewBlock(const CScript& scriptPubKeyIn, const CTxMemPool* maybe_mempool);
```
### Future work
Although wholly out of scope for this PR, we could potentially refine the `BlockAssembler` interface further, so that we have:
```
BlockAssembler::BlockAssembler(CChainState& chainstate, const Options& options);
BlockAssembler::CreateNewBlock(const CScript& scriptPubKeyIn, std::vector<CTransaction>& txs);
BlockAssembler::CreateNewBlock(const CScript& scriptPubKeyIn, const CTxMemPool& mempool);
```
Whereby `TestChain100Setup::CreateBlock` and `generateblock` would call the `BlockAssembler::CreateNewBlock` that takes in `CTransaction`s and we can potentially remove `RegenerateCommitments` altogether. All other callers can use the `CTxMemPool` version.
ACKs for top commit:
glozow:
ACK 0f1a259657
laanwj:
Code review ACK 0f1a259657
MarcoFalke:
ACK 0f1a259657🐊
Tree-SHA512: 2b4b1dbb43d85719f241ad1f19ceb7fc50cf764721da425a3d1ff71bd16328c4f86acff22e565bc9abee770d3ac8827a6676b66daa93dbf42dd817ad929e9448
...also adjust callers
Changes:
- In BlockAssembler::CreateNewBlock, we now only lock m_mempool->cs and
call addPackageTxs if m_mempool is not nullptr
- BlockAssembler::addPackageTxs now takes in a mempool reference, and is
annotated to require that mempool's lock.
- In TestChain100Setup::CreateBlock and generateblock, don't construct
an empty mempool, just pass in a nullptr for mempool
d87784ac87 kernel: SanityChecks: Return an error struct (Carl Dong)
265d6393bf Move init::SanityCheck to kernel::SanityCheck (Carl Dong)
fed085a1a4 init: Initialize globals with kernel::Context's life (Carl Dong)
7d03feef81 kernel: Introduce empty and unused kernel::Context (Carl Dong)
eeb4fc20c5 test: Use Set/UnsetGlobals in BasicTestingSetup (Carl Dong)
Pull request description:
The full `init/common.cpp` is dependent on things like ArgsManager (which we wish to remove from libbitcoinkernel in the future) and sanity checks. These aren't necessary for libbitcoinkernel so we only extract the portion that is necessary (namely `init::{Set,Unset}Globals()`.
ACKs for top commit:
theuni:
ACK d87784ac87
vasild:
ACK d87784ac87
Tree-SHA512: cd6b4923ea1865001b5f0caed9a4ff99c198d22bf74154d935dc09a47fda22ebe585ec912398cea69f722454ed1dbb4898faab5a2d02fb4c5e719c5c8d71a3f9
...instead of explicitly calling init::{Set,Unset}Globals.
Cool thing about this is that in both the testing and bitcoin-chainstate
codepaths, we no longer need to explicitly unset globals. The
kernel::Context goes out of scope and the globals are unset
"automatically".
Also construct kernel::Context outside of AppInitSanityChecks()
...instead of calling initialization functions directly and having to
keep around a ECCVerifyHandle member variable.
This makes the initialization codepath of our tests more closely
resemble those of AppInitMain and potentially eases the review of
subsequent commit removing init::{Set,Unset}Globals.
[META] In a future commit, we will introduce a kernel::Context which
calls init::{Set,Unset}Globals in its ctor and dtor. It will be
owned by node::NodeContext, so in the end, this patchset won't
have made the previously local ECCVerifyHandle global.
This decouples validation.cpp from netaddress.cpp (transitively,
timedata.cpp, and asmap.cpp).
This is important for libbitcoinkernel as:
- There is no reason for the consensus engine to be coupled with
netaddress, timedata, and asmap
- Users of libbitcoinkernel can now easily supply their own
std::function that provides the adjusted time.
See the src/Makefile.am changes for some satisfying removals.
[META] Although it seems like we don't need it for just one option,
we're going to introduce another member to this struct *in the
next commit*. In future patchsets for libbitcoinkernel decoupling
it from ArgsManager, even more members will be added here.
